Attention to low- and high-spatial frequencies in categorizing facial identities, emotions and gender in children with autism.
Brain Cogn
; 66(2): 115-23, 2008 Mar.
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ABSTRACT
This study was aimed at investigating face categorization strategies in children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD). Performance of 17 children with ASD was compared to that of 17 control children in a face-matching task, including hybrid faces (composed of two overlapping faces of different spatial bandwidths) and either low- or high-pass filtered faces. Participants were asked to match faces on the basis of identity, emotion or gender. Results revealed that children with ASD used the same strategies as controls when matching faces by gender. By contrast, in the identity and the emotion conditions, children with ASD showed a high-pass bias (i.e., preference for local information), contrary to controls. Consistent with previous studies on autism, these findings suggest that children with ASD do use atypical (local-oriented) strategies to process faces.
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Assunto principal:
Reconhecimento Visual de Modelos
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Mascaramento Perceptivo
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Resolução de Problemas
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Atenção
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Transtorno Autístico
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Discriminação Psicológica
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2008
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Article